Film Maker in Focus: Robert Breer
Overzicht van films
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Eyewash
Robert Breer | 3' | USA | None
Organised confusion of live footage and animation. Colour added to by hand on each print. -
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Form Phases I
Robert Breer | 2' | USA | None
Ink on paper, some colour on the film surface. His first step from painting to film. -
Form Phases II
Robert Breer | 4' | USA | None
Geometric shapes using the same ‘vocabulary’ as the painters from the Bauhaus movement. -
Form Phases III
Robert Breer | 4' | USA | None
Rectangles and soft-edged forms cut out of paper are set to motion on a background. -
Form Phases IV
Robert Breer | 13' | USA | None
This refined film gives us an idea of what Breer might have done if he had continued making ‘elegant’ films, classically balanced and serene. -
Frames of Mind
Ann Woodward, Camera Keiko Tsuno | 30' | USA | None
Besides the conversation, the film contains footage from the following films: Recreation, A Man and His Dog Out for Air, 69, LMNO. -
Fuji
Robert Breer | 10' | USA | None
The classic outline of Mount Fuji, filmed by Breer from a train at the occasion of the Expo ‘70, then rotoscoped. -
Homage to Jean Tinguely’s ‘Homage to New York’
Robert Breer | 9' | USA | None
A recording of the life and death of a self-destructing sculpture by Jean Tinguely. Filmed at the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York. -
I, of the Cyclops (Fragment)
George Kuchar | 7' | USA | None
George Kuchar visits Robert Breer. Enjoy the leisurely portrait and view young and old as they chew the fat in cosy habitats. -
Jamestown Baloos
Robert Breer | 6' | USA | None
Cut-outs of war machines and the figure of Napoleon encounter abstract shapes, line drawings, old-master landscapes and short bursts of ‘real-time’ la -
Linoleum
Robert Rauschenberg | 20' | USA | None
A filmed performance by Rauschenberg. There is no subject in a narrative sense. We see amongst the performers Breer with his Float-sculptures.
